Creating Instructional Videos/teaching approach

This activity is a cross curricula⁽ⁱ⁾ activity with a literacy focus, involving a collaborative^(tool) approach, giving children to opportunity to work together to produce a set of instructional resources. Children were encouraged to engage in group talk^(ta) and discussion^(ta) in the classroom to reflect on what they should include in their videos. The activity furthers e-skills^(topic) through the use of whole class^(ta) participation. It develops e-safety^(topic) skills through discussion of the issues relating to posting digital content online. Children were allowed to choose their own subject for the video, although this could be set by a teacher with a specific outcome in mind, or could be tailored to cover a particular topic or subject. It could, for instance, be used to explain their mathematical thinking^(ta) or a mathematical method^(ta).